In this week’s episode of HELLO!’s Second Act podcast, host Ateh Jewel meets comedienne, podcast host, and author Cally Beaton.<\/p>\n
Known to her 230k Instagram following as the woman behind the ‘Namaste Mother*******’ podcast, of which she has a new book by the same title, the high-flying corporate TV executive completely turned her life around at 50 thanks to advice from the late Joan Rivers.<\/p>\n
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Ateh and Cally chatted on HELLO!’s Second Act podcast<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAdvice from an 81-year-old<\/strong><\/h2>\n“Not everyone gets their second act ushered in by a feminist celebrity,” 56-year-old Cally jokes. “I sat on the board of some big TV companies and used to meet some of the people who would front our shows – and one I had the immense pleasure of working with was the late, great Joan Rivers.<\/p>\n
“We were having dinner, and she said I should try stand-up. I said, ‘I’m a single parent of two kids. One of my kids has special needs. I sit in the boardroom every day, it’s too late.’<\/p>\n
“She looked at me and said, ‘Cally, I’m\u00a081. What\u2019s stopping you?’ And then she died two weeks later.”<\/p>\n
Life is short<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe combination of the conversation and realising that life is so short, propelled Cally to do her first-ever stand-up gig before quitting her prestigious day job the year she turned 50. Now a successful comic, podcast host and number one best-selling author, she has never looked back.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Instagram<\/span><\/div>\nCally Beaton was inspired to change her life in her fifties<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“I’d like to say I\u2019m a recovering perfectionist,” Cally says of her approach to life now. “I don’t need a vicelike grip on life to prove anything to anyone else. Just keep moving forward in whatever way feels good.”<\/p>\n
Joan’s advice certainly helped Cally along that path, but she notes: “What was really important about that story was not that it was Joan Rivers, it’s that it was an 81-year-old woman with wisdom who took the time to see something in a younger woman and tell me what was what from her perspective. That was the real power of that moment.”<\/p>\n
Now approaching her 60s, Cally has found a deep sense of happiness in her own skin.<\/p>\n
“I am consciously happily single and have never felt like that before. I love romance and sex, but for now, I am\u00a0happy working on my relationship with myself so that feels liberating.”<\/p>\n
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The combination of the conversation and realising that life is so short, propelled Cally to do her first-ever stand-up gig before quitting her prestigious day job the year she turned 50. Now a successful comic, podcast host and number one best-selling author, she has never looked back.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Instagram<\/span><\/div>\nCally Beaton was inspired to change her life in her fifties<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“I’d like to say I\u2019m a recovering perfectionist,” Cally says of her approach to life now. “I don’t need a vicelike grip on life to prove anything to anyone else. Just keep moving forward in whatever way feels good.”<\/p>\n
Joan’s advice certainly helped Cally along that path, but she notes: “What was really important about that story was not that it was Joan Rivers, it’s that it was an 81-year-old woman with wisdom who took the time to see something in a younger woman and tell me what was what from her perspective. That was the real power of that moment.”<\/p>\n
Now approaching her 60s, Cally has found a deep sense of happiness in her own skin.<\/p>\n
“I am consciously happily single and have never felt like that before. I love romance and sex, but for now, I am\u00a0happy working on my relationship with myself so that feels liberating.”<\/p>\n
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